Charlottesville, VA, USA
Fireball falling at a strange speed and trajectory then turned to a silver something or other, and began flashing a blue light.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-03-08
- Where
- Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.029, -78.477 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-charlottesville-va-2015-e05c7d
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 36 reports logged in Charlottesville, VA.
- This case is one of 151 Virginia reports filed in 2015.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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